# Platform Experience Backend Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Seattle, PST
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,100.00 to $198,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Platform Experience Backend team at Cisco builds APIs and durable workflows behind data management products. You will design, build, and operate customer-facing REST APIs and backend services in Go, lead small-to-medium features, and own services in production.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and operate customer-facing REST APIs and backend services in Go

- Lead small-to-medium features from technical design through coding, testing, code review, and production

- Own services in production: monitor, take on-call shifts, and lead postmortems and root-cause analysis

- Write clean, well-tested, secure code and give thoughtful code reviews

- Collaborate with Product Managers, designers, frontend engineers, and adjacent backend teams

- Mentor junior engineers and interns

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree + 5 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 3 years of related experience

- Experience in backend languages (Golang, Java, C++, Python, or similar)

- Experience designing, building, and operating REST APIs and backend services in production

- Experience with data structures, algorithms, software design, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production debugging

- Experience with cloud-native architecture on a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including Docker and Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong communication skills

- Experience with high-volume data pipelines, streaming technologies, data lakes, or SQL

- Distributed systems experience

- Enthusiasm for AI tools

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (holidays, vacation time, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- REST APIs
- backend services
- cloud-native architecture
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- data structures
- algorithms
- software design
- CI/CD pipelines
- automated testing
- production debugging

### Nice to have
- high-volume data pipelines
- streaming technologies
- data lakes
- SQL
- distributed systems
- AI tools

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